My Obra Icons project has always been available from the website, but now you can also use the Figma plugin. Earlier this week, we also released a package for React. Any feedback is welcome!
Obra icons: Figma plugin
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Author Archives: Johan
Making an iOS app simply by prompting (2)
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Yesterday I took the idea of prompting to make an iOS app much further than with my experiments of last week. I have this web-based version of a currency conversion app – which you can try here – and I converted most of the logic to an iOS app. I wanted to see how far […]
Making an iOS app simply by prompting
With my “newfound” prompting superpowers, I tried to generate the code for an iPhone app and see how far I could go. Once again, I was pretty amazed by the Claude/Cursor workflow. In a rather limited time I had the scaffolding for a wedding app done. I ended up getting a subscription to Cursor which […]
Choose your own adventure (3)
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Last work week I spent a good chunk of time on my projects Screenshot to Layout and Obra Icons. I also spent some time investing the hype around Cursor and oh boy… the hype is real. I built a mobile-optimized Currency Converter app in a few hours of work mostly by prompting what I wanted. […]
Choose your own adventure (2)
- Posted in aspirations career ondernemen
My search for a new adventure is starting in earnest after some holidays. Two weeks ago I wrote about two main options, one was getting a product designer role in a US startup/scaleup, the other one was restarting agency life. I’ve been looking at jobs on read.cv and on workatastartup.com. Ideally I can find a […]
ShapeShifter plugin for Figma
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Fresh from the plugin press, this plugin by Vijay Verma provides some shortcuts to easily access important vector tools In Figma. This can help as a bit of a bandaid, since Figma’s UI team inexplicably decided to hide the vector tools behind extra clicks in UI3.
High-end fonts included with macOS
- Posted in resources typography
Did you know that macOS comes with some wonderful, super high quality fonts that normally cost hundreds or thousands of euros to license? I believe they came with an update to Pages templates a few years ago. If you open Font Book — the app used to manage fonts on macOS — and then search […]
Converting an .mp4 to a .gif using ffmpeg
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Today I was converting an mp4 video to a gif and I figured I’d document some commands that helped in the process. I used ffmpeg to do this. You can install it on Mac or Linux using homebrew: For optimal quality, generate a color pallette based on a timestamp in the video: This will generate […]
Choose your own adventure
- Posted in aspirations career ondernemen
When I started as a freelancer in 2011, I dove into the world of mobile apps. But that’s the short story. The longer one is that I first did some branding and web design. Then, I had a stint as a photographer. I worked for advertising agencies (not really my thing…), development companies (interesting but […]
A next phase + new portfolio link
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Change is afoot for me; After 2,5 years working with Doccle I’ll be working on finding new design challenges to take on with my agency Obra Studio. At this moment, I am not sure where things will go. One part of me dreams of going back to agency life and build out a bigger, stronger […]